Simple mode shows stocks based on this preset. It is the same screener with
the controls fixed at the settings the strategy is meant to be run with, cut
to the top thirty and stripped of everything but the names.
- universeSize=3500
- Rank the largest 3,500 companies by market cap.
- groupSize=30
- Show the top block of 30 — the basket you would buy.
- domicile=domestic
- US-domiciled filers only.
- minMarketCap=50000000
- Drop anything under $50M, where spreads make the list unbuyable.
- minPrice=5
- Drop anything under $5.
- nwcMode=simple
- Working capital as current assets − current liabilities, rather than Greenblatt's excess-cash adjustment.
- minCapitalToRevenue=0.1
- Require capital employed to be at least 10% of revenue, so return on capital is not dividing by a near-zero denominator.
- minPE=5
- Drop P/E under 5 — usually a warning rather than a bargain.
- excludeSectorsEnabled=1
- Exclude financials and utilities, whose unclassified balance sheets leave working capital undefined.
- floorWorkingCapital=1
- Treat negative working capital as zero instead of letting it flatter the denominator.
- excludeOneOffEarnings=1
- Drop companies whose earnings look non-operating, which revert once they lap the event.
- backfill=1
- Keep widening the pool until 30 names survive the exclusions above. Without this the list comes up short.
- includeNegativeEbit=0
- Loss-making companies cannot be ranked on either metric, so they stay out.
Turning simple mode off restores your own filters and lets you change any of these. Nothing here is investment advice.